I was trying to do a big "yum update" having just incorporated the "development" channel, and yum failed due to dependency issues. But the error message was unhelpful because it didn't indicate whether an already installed package had a dependency that was being broken by updating a different package or whether the package I'm trying to upgrade to has dependencies that are unsatisfiable. Here's the error output: Package abiword-plugins-impexp needs libcrlayeng.so.1, this is not available. Package abiword-plugins-impexp needs libcroco.so.1, this is not available. Package abiword-plugins-impexp needs libcrseleng.so.2, this is not available. Now, does the current version of abiword-plugins-impexp require libcroco.so.1 and the new version of the libcroco package has, say, libcroco.so.2? Or does the new version of abiword-plugins-impexp require a new version of libcroco which is unavailable? What would be awesome is if it would read: Package abiword-plugins-impexp (installed) needs libcroco.so.1, so I cannot upgrade package libcroco for the first case and Package abiword-plugins-impexp needs libcroco.so.1, this is not available for the second case. Thanks! -jag
I've got a number of things that are higher on the list than getting the error reporting to be more friendly but this is not off the list.
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